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The silent piano from Yamaha looks/sounds pretty amazing ! Unfortunately , when they were trying to demo it in that little iso room off the main floor, they couldn't figure out to get a decent sound out of the module...all they kept getting was that old DX7 rhodes....

The Yamaha product manager was in the process of taking the legendary studio pianist Ralph Grierson and myself to a private room to demo it, where I guess it was working better.. Regrettably it was late in day and my ride was leaving....darn.

I would think even in its smallest C2 (?) scale, it would still be quite $$,$$$ .

Yes hopefully some of that technology will trickle down to the CP stage pianos or Motif/S90s.

Personally I had a tough time with the action on that NU1. I found it hard to execute the RH of the opening section of Chopin op. 25 Winter Wind Etude.

Dave would you care to give an opinion on the Casio? Did you get to play it?

If he can't I can ..... It's good.... Very good .....scarily good especially for the price and weight. I was particularly impressed with the ep's and organs and some of the strings and pads as well. The AP's are certainly getting to the point of diminishing returns for live work and would give a cp5 or mp6 a fright. Controls are excellent and its ridiculously light for a board with such a nice playable action. But ... and it's a big but ... It's incredibly ugly ....I mean eye gouging stomach churning ugly...we are talking major fugly here. But if your blind or blind to the effect that being connected to such a visual design failure will have on you ... By all means grab one. It's like a having a fling with a girl who's great in bed but isn't for public display and we have all done that

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"I'm still an idiot and I'm still in love" - Blue Sofa - The Plugz 1981 (Tito Larriva) Disclosure : I am professionally associated with Arturia but my sentiments are my own only.

Yes hopefully some of that technology will trickle down to the CP stage pianos or Motif/S90s.

Later this year it will for some boards. It's a lovely sample and Yammy are gonna milk it to death over the next few years in a myriad of versions

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"I'm still an idiot and I'm still in love" - Blue Sofa - The Plugz 1981 (Tito Larriva) Disclosure : I am professionally associated with Arturia but my sentiments are my own only.

I dunno I only played a couple of clonewheels I thought nice. I'm not much into churchy stuff ( understatement of the century )

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"I'm still an idiot and I'm still in love" - Blue Sofa - The Plugz 1981 (Tito Larriva) Disclosure : I am professionally associated with Arturia but my sentiments are my own only.

Dave would you care to give an opinion on the Casio? Did you get to play it?

If he can't I can ..... It's good.... Very good .....scarily good especially for the price and weight. I was particularly impressed with the ep's and organs and some of the strings and pads as well. The AP's are certainly getting to the point of diminishing returns for live work and would give a cp5 or mp6 a fright. Controls are excellent and its ridiculously light for a board with such a nice playable action....

Dr P (or anyone else), are you familiar with the action and acoustic piano sounds on the PX-150 and 350? Is this the same, or is it better?

Dave would you care to give an opinion on the Casio? Did you get to play it?

If he can't I can ..... It's good.... Very good .....scarily good especially for the price and weight. I was particularly impressed with the ep's and organs and some of the strings and pads as well. The AP's are certainly getting to the point of diminishing returns for live work and would give a cp5 or mp6 a fright. Controls are excellent and its ridiculously light for a board with such a nice playable action. But ... and it's a big but ... It's incredibly ugly ....I mean eye gouging stomach churning ugly...we are talking major fugly here. But if your blind or blind to the effect that being connected to such a visual design failure will have on you ... By all means grab one. It's like a having a fling with a girl who's great in bed but isn't for public display and we have all done that

Yeah Nord's defintley going to have to get on the ball now, with regard to updated rhodes and wurlis, after hearing what the new Casio has to offer in that area under a grand.

Dave would you care to give an opinion on the Casio? Did you get to play it?

I did not get to play the PX-5....

Originally Posted By: Dr Popper

Originally Posted By: voxpops

Dave would you care to give an opinion on the Casio? Did you get to play it?

If he can't I can ..... It's good.... Very good .....scarily good especially for the price and weight. ...But ... and it's a big but ... It's incredibly ugly ....I mean eye gouging stomach churning ugly...we are talking major fugly here....;)

Aside from its role in facilitating or obstructing functionality a lot of people look past/through the surface design and only see the internal workings with their mind's eye. Knobs/sliders/screens are just the means to access them when they use something like this.

Appearance can be redefined in the perception of your mind given a strong product. Nord makes ugly eye sores but they are very popular for good reason. The orange box even seems to be a status symbol.

The PX5S seems like it is going to be eaten up by the world as fast as Casio can produce them.

If this were known to me a few months ago I would have opted to sell my MOX6 and buy one of these instead of buying the PX350. I would not have needed to add a 2nd tier to my stand. I may never play two keyboards at the same time. I could live without the unweighted action of the MOX. I could do everything (within my limited ability and probable future ability) with this one keyboard.

Red or Orange ... It's a bloody awful colour. But while Nords are visually challenged nothing is going to prepare you for the visual assault on aesthetics that the PX-5S provides. You know it's coming but still your somehow not ready for it when you see it in the flesh. It looks like a wallybox from 1992 covered in ice cream.

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"I'm still an idiot and I'm still in love" - Blue Sofa - The Plugz 1981 (Tito Larriva) Disclosure : I am professionally associated with Arturia but my sentiments are my own only.

Dr P (or anyone else), are you familiar with the action and acoustic piano sounds on the PX-150 and 350? Is this the same, or is it better?

Same basic sound and action but fully editable with more variations. It's really quite good indeed. Action is far better then it should be for the money. Very playable and quite fast. Samples seem fully mapped to me.

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"I'm still an idiot and I'm still in love" - Blue Sofa - The Plugz 1981 (Tito Larriva) Disclosure : I am professionally associated with Arturia but my sentiments are my own only.

I am in need of updating my gigging piano and have been waiting till after NAMM to see if there would be a new Yamaha CP udate or Korg SV1. I told myself if neither were forthcoming I would go with the Nord Piano 2, however the new Casio might make me wait again. I have played the PX350 in stores and liked the action and the piano sound was good but I do a fair amount of rhodes stuff and I didn't care for the rhodes in the 350, prefer the Nord. But now I have some thinking to do since the Casio has gone and updated the Rhodes sound.

I was in Stockholm some years ago during Midsommardagen, and I distinctly remember seeing many Swedes glowing pink - even red - under the sun, as they danced around the maypoles......

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Bye the way, I am planning to replace my 12 years old Yamaha CLP-930 with the upcoming Kawai CS-7! After trying several Yamaha, Roland and Kawais, the CS-7 seems to be the best match to my preferences (price/performance AND looks).Last I tried Kawai, I liked the keyboard action on the CA-65 best, and the sound of the CS-6 (and looks) best. Knowing they share the same speakers, to my ears the treble on the CA-65 was to obviously coming from the tweeters above the keyboard as opposed to the CS-6 where I found the sound to be more natural.I know this sounds (?) strange, but that is how I find it...Be that as it may, I am soo looking forward to try out the CS-7 when it appears in April (I have been told).Take care all,Michael